demolish the stock, especially if they mount campaigns against the stock like with herbal life and bill acman, the hedge fund manager. just don't underestimate the amount of damage the shorts can do, although remember the best protection against these raids is an offer from stocks that pay good solid dividends. short sellers have to borrow stock to short the stock, and that means they have to pay the dividends to the real owners. that's a terrific deterrent from those who are pernicious in the way they go about shorting. when you see a stock with a big dividend being attacked by shorts and dividend's going higher, what a terrific place to be, especially if the insiders are snapping up stock too. bottom line, insider buying plus heavy short interest can equal raging buy as long as you avoid situations where the shorts are determined to crush the stock at any cost. think herbal life. speaking of herbal life, let's go to herb in florida, herb. >> caller: jim, great to talk to you. i'm an action alerts follower for the past few years. i wish i had gotten on board a lot sooner. >> you're very kind

one person who thinks chipotle is still under valued is bill acman.st share holder and according to reports he is fighting for a few seats on the board. stevels addressed saying he spaekts announcements soon and making statements on trump saying the best thing for chipotle is some sort of tax reform in the future. >> that certainly couldn't hurt. >> the best thing for them would be confidence from consumers again. they have yet to convince many consumers to come back to the store there. >> they have done everything. giving away free guac, free burritos, introducing a loyalty program. that is not doing the trick. stevels saying every month same store sales have been hard to predict. >> very candid comments from that ceo. susan lee thank you very much. >>> let's get to breaking news on boeing. phil lebeau, what is happening. >> we have yet to hear from the air force. we have a statement from the air force. remember, this is an air force contract with boeing to build the pair of 747s that will be the next generation of air force ones. the air force says

bill acman give you a heads up? >> bill has been wonderful shareholders and part of our board of directors. they have great comments and have been helpful to me. certainly it has been a chance to really rebuild the team, rebuild the product portfolio especially new products and take activities to try to pay down debt. we are going to operationally improvement but we are looking at noncore assets. that is something we have been working closely with bill. >> scott has a question. >> it's good to talk to you. you mentioned salex as being an important product to you. pen was almost going to paper on a deal to sell it before it fell through. i reported at the time that one of your largest shareholders, john paulson was against that transaction. are you on the same page with your largest shareholders as to what your future should be? and will you continue to sell what others deem to be incredibly core and important assets to your company? >> so since the seven months i have been very active in talking to all of our shareh